[WIP] Vampire Librarian Character Bust

sannePaus

heya!! thanks for looking at this post! it's been a while since i posted anything on polycount, but i wanted to get to posting again to just share my process and possibly get some feedback while i'm at it (: this project is gonna be from an idea that i sketched out in my sketchbook earlier this year, and i'll be sharing the steps in the way i'm taking to get to the end result! 

first sketches ^

more sketches and a plan ^

some pose exploration to get a visual idea of how this character should behave and should be posed at the end of the process ^

sannePaus

the first sculpting is done, and i'm pretty happy with what i ended up with for the first session of sculpting this character. the shapes look nice together and the hair translates better than i expected! i like to add some basic polypaint early on to get a better visual feeling of what the character will look like. at some point later on i'm going to break symmetry regarding the hair strands in the front (:

kanga

Looks good!
Seems you are still kinda new at this so maybe a good idea to include the legs so you can work on the whole figure. Your anatomy is a bit off particularly the upper arms. You can use image reference but also a free app like Daz3D to see how the body looks from different angles. Really worth getting the figure looking good under the costume!

sannePaus

sculpted the hands for her, and aimed to stylize the hands so that the fingers are longer than usual and have this bone-y look (because she's a vampire, duh!) and add some nasty claw-like nails.

sannePaus

thanks for your input @kanga ! appreciated  

sannePaus

sculpted a sketch of the clothes, added some polypaint to get a bit of a feeling of what it could be. i'm not sure about the shapes of the clothes just yet, and i feel like it just needs a little more refining. which is what i'll do next! but so far, pretty happy with how this is turning out